Maltese institutions, which include the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General, have failed to initiate prosecutions in court against people involved in corruption scandals, the president of the NGO Repubblika, Robert Aquilina, said.

Speaking in a press conference in front of the law courts on Saturday, Aquilina said that corruption leading to the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, as well as scandals post her death, have yet to be truly investigated and have persons involved prosecuted.

Aquilina said the Chief Prosecutor of the European Union revealed earlier this week that none of the Maltese institutions are investigating financial crimes of corruption.

Speaking to European lawmakers on Wednesday, Kövesi said Malta's authorities were unable to respond to simple questions.

"I visited Malta. I had meetings with the national authorities and after two days it was very difficult for me to identify the institution that is responsible for detecting crimes," she said.

"All of them said that 'it's not me. It's them.' And when I visited them, they said 'it's not us'," she said.

Kövesi heads the Luxembourg-based European Public Prosecutor's Office. 

It is unacceptable that this is happening, Aquilina said Saturday. It is another humiliation for the country.

He said that while police have charged 17 Black owner and prime suspect in the murder of Caruana Galizia Yorgen Fenech, no one has yet been charged on the motive for the murder, being corruption.

If the police believe that Caruana Galizia was killed because of her investigations into corruption, why hasn’t anyone been brought before justice, he said.

Aquilina accused the Police Commissioner and Attorney General of refraining from performing their duties in full despite the closure of many magisterial inquiries.

He said that the Pilatus Bank and the Egrant inquiries, which recommended steps to be taken against individuals involved, were not followed through, despite the inquiries closing more than a year ago.

“We remind you that no prosecution has yet begun against those who helped the protagonists of corruption and those who had any interest in not apprehending anyone involved in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia,” Aquilina said.

He said that police and the Attorney General should continue to investigate and initiate prosecutions alongside ongoing magisterial inquiries. There are no more excuses: people should be brought to book, Aquilina said.

Aquilina added that the election should not be taken as an absolution to all the sins that were committed in the past.

He said that there are attempts to make the people forget about past mishaps, but the NGO will continue to remind the people about the Electrogas deal, the Montenegro wind farm, the selling of three public hospitals to the private sector, Pilatus Bank and the Panama Papers.